Safety and complications of medical thoracoscopy in the management of pleural diseases. [PDF]
BMC Pulm Med, 2019 BackgroundMedical thoracoscopy is considered an overall safe procedure, whereas numbers of studies focus on complications of diagnostic thoracoscopy and talc poudrage pleurodesis.
Wan YY +9 more
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Update on pleural diseases - 2007
Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2007 Background : New information is available on pleural diseases. The authors selected articles to make recommendations on diagnostic and treatment aspects of pleural diseases.
Bishay Ayman +8 more
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Biomarkers in the diagnosis of pleural diseases: a 2018 update. [PDF]
Ther Adv Respir Dis, 2018 The use of biomarkers on pleural fluid (PF) specimens may assist the decision-making process and enhance clinical diagnostic pathways. Three paradigmatic examples are heart failure, tuberculosis and, particularly, malignancy. An elevated PF concentration
Porcel JM.
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Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Can Differentiate between Malignant and Benign Pleural Diseases. [PDF]
Cancers (Basel), 2019 It is not clear whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is useful for the assessment of pleural diseases. The aim of this study is to determine whether diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) can differentiate malignant pleural mesothelioma (
Usuda K +9 more
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Comparison of awake and intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the diagnosis of pleural diseases: A prospective multicenter randomized trial. [PDF]
Turk Gogus Kalp Damar Cerrahisi Derg, 2019 Background This study aims to compare the safety and diagnostic accuracy of awake and intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the diagnosis of pleural diseases.
Kocatürk C +12 more
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Diagnostic approach to pleural diseases: new tricks for an old trade. [PDF]
F1000Res, 2017 The burden of pleural diseases has substantially increased in the past decade because of a rise in the incidence of pleural space infections and pleural malignancies in a patient population that is older and more immunocompromised and has more ...
Maldonado F, Lentz RJ, Light RW.
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Implementation of evidence on management of pleural diseases: insights from a territory-wide survey of clinicians in Hong Kong [PDF]
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background Major advances in management of common pleural diseases have taken place in the past decade. However, pleural diseases are often managed by physicians of diverse training background and research on implementation of new knowledge is scanty. We
Macy M. S. Lui +18 more
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Video assisted thoracoscopic and open chest surgery in diagnosis and treatment of malignant pleural diseases. [PDF]
J Vis Surg, 2017 Parenchymal cancers of lung, breast, gastrointestinal tract and ovaries as well as lymphomas and mesotheliomas are among the most common cancer types causing malignant effusions, though almost all tumour types have been reported to cause a malignant ...
Perikleous P, Waller DA.
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Thoracoscopy: medical versus surgical-in the management of pleural diseases. [PDF]
J Thorac Dis, 2015 Diseases of the pleura continue to affect a large population of patients worldwide and in the United States. Pleural fluid analysis and accompanying imaging of the pleura including chest X-rays, chest computed tomography (CT) scan and chest ...
Shojaee S, Lee HJ.
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Advances and controversies in pleural diseases. [PDF]
J Thorac Dis, 2015 Pleural effusion is a common presentation for many pulmonary and systemic diseases, particularly heart failure, pneumonia, cancer and tuberculosis (TB).
Porcel JM, Statophoulos G, Lee YC.
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